China Change Invites Your Comments:What does it mean for the world, for the US, and for us as individuals to have an authoritarian China, with the world’s biggest economy soon and 1/5 of the world population, that rejects universal values?

May 26, 2014

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Lately not a day has passed without me stopping in the middle of something, gripped by disbelief: It’s been 25 years since the Tian’anmen democracy movement in 1989, and today, in 2014, Continue reading

Tibetan Singer Held After Belting Out Song Calling for Language Protection

2014-05-26 

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Tibetan singer Gebe in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
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Chinese Blogger Says He Was Fired After Meeting With Kerry

By AUSTIN RAMZY MAY 26, 2014 2:42 AM

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The United States secretary of state, John Kerry, at a news conference in Beijing in February.
Pool photo by Evan Vucci
A Chinese blogger says he was fired from his job at one of China’s Continue reading

For Some Foreign Students, U.S. Education Is Losing Its Attraction

By KARIN FISCHER | THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION MAY 25, 2014

SEOUL — Each fall, thousands of students from South Korea arrive on American campuses. They come from a culture that views education as the key to success, where mothers and fathers save to send their children overseas. On top of tuition, parents shell out for test prep and cram schools, supplemental Continue reading

25 Years Ago: Tide Turns Toward Hard-Liner

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China, and the subsequent June 4th military crackdown in Beijing. To commemorate the student movement, CDT is posting a series of original news articles from 1989, beginning

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Striving for Wealth and Truth in China, in Face of Monolithic Government-‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval

MAY 25, 2014

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Evan Osnos writes of the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose picture is being carried by Chinese protesters. Credit Tyrone Siu/Reuters

Books of The Times
By JUDITH SHAPIRO

Evan Osnos appears to be almost as entrepreneurial, intrepid and Continue reading

Q & A: Chan Koonchung on Tibet, Sex and Censorship

By JOYCE LAU MAY 25, 2014 6:00 PM

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Chan Koonchung checking the offerings at the People’s Recreation Community bookstore in Hong Kong.
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Tiananmen Massacre 25th anniversary: the silencing campaign

Communist party redoubles efforts to silence any mention of Tiananmen Square in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the student protests

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A blood-covered protestor holds a Chinese soldier’s helmet Continue reading